A. BUCHON: LA GRECE CONTINENTALE ET LA MOREE,VOYAGE SEJOUR ET ETUDES HISTORIQUES EN 1840 ET 1843 First edition, in 8vo, contemporary leather over boards slightly rubbed, complete 565p., tet clean and bright, upper joint starting,very light spotting in few pages, overall in very good condition. An important work. Buchon was the first to introduce the study of medieval Greece up to then neglected in favor of the antiquities of Ancient Greece. He was searching archives and manuscripts of the medieval area,he toured all around Peloponnesus and continental Greece to locate the ruins of Medieval French occupation in the area. An important early study who shed light on many contemporary Byzantine monuments in Greece. Atabey 162, Blackmer 230